BIB_ID
348772
Accession number
MA 370.98
Creator
Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901.
Display Date
1893 Aug. 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on the stationery of "The New Park Hotel / Corner Portage and Douglas Ave. / Sault Ste. Marie, Mich."
Written on the stationery of "The New Park Hotel / Corner Portage and Douglas Ave. / Sault Ste. Marie, Mich."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his expressions of sympathy; discussing the futility of approaching "any man for means for such a purpose until the times are better. [Illegible] is more sensitive than poverty and the efforts to save great institutions, banks, railways & corporations from [illegible] always tax the brains and means of capitalists."
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